Dec 7, 2017

Trump’s decision dropped the last fig leaf and added the final straw
that will indeed reshape Western Asia and Probably the world but not in ways
that the Zionists who run the Trump administration planned or wished for. IT IS
NOW TIME FOR ACTIONS (see last part after explanation).

The last fig leaf: Everyone now recognizes that the last fig leaf of the
mythical/mirage ”two-state solution” have now ended with this z\announcement by
Trump tat illegal occupation and annexation of Arab Jerusalem is recognized by
the government of the USA. In my 2004 book explaining why and how the “two state”
public relations campaign is not a solution but was invented by Ben Gurion in
the 1920s to keep the world thinking that Zionists want peace while they
consolidated their power and extended their control and then expanded
(eventually to the ultimate goal of the “Jewish empire”. Ben-Gurion was indeed
very prophetic when he wrote in his diary that we should give the illusion of accepting
to divide the land until we strengthen ourselves and then we will expand to the
rest of the country [Erez Ysrael, Nile to Euphrates] “with or without the
acceptance of the Arabs” and when he wrote things like “it must be clear that there is no room in the country for both peoples
. . . If the Arabs leave it, the country will become wide and spacious for us .
. . The only solution is a Land of Israel, at least a western land of Israel
[i.e. Palestine], without Arabs. There is no room here for compromises . . .
There is no way but to transfer the Arabs from here to the neighboring
countries, to transfer all of them, save perhaps for Bethlehem, Nazareth, and
the old Jerusalem. Not one village must be left, not one tribe. The transfer
must be directed at Iraq, Syria, and even Transjordan” (and indeed 7.5 million
of us are now refugees or displaced people). Ben-Gurion also wrote that "We
are presently involved not only in a conflict with our Arab neighbors, but, to
some extent, with most of mankind as it is organized in the United Nations -
because of Jerusalem. Only a blind man does not see that the sources of this
conflict are not political, economic or military alone, but also
ideological." The ideology he refers to is Zionism (which s a form of colonialism and obviously incompatible with native interest)

The last fig leaf has fallen also off of the lie of a “peace process”
supposedly led by the US government which in turn has a foreign policy dictated
by the Zionist lobby. It is the last fig leaf that protected the Arab leaders
from Riyad to Ramalllah who helped Israel get away with ethnic cleansing,
crimes against humanity, and war crimes. It is the last fig leaf that protected
the hypocritical Western Leaders from Sydney to Berlin to London to Washington
who speak of International law and did everything in their power to physically
support and fund an apartheid state that violates just about every provision of
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as the Fourth Geneva
Convention and countless UN resolutions (both UN security council and general
assembly resolutions). It even violates the provisions of Israel’s own admission
to the UN and should have long been expelled from the UN.

The LAST STRAWS: As the fig leaves have all fallen, the insults to the
Arab, Islamic, AND Christian world accumulated to the breaking point. Nearly 70
years have passed (1948-1949) since Zionists depopulated West Jerusalem of its
Christian and Muslim Population and 50 years have passed since Zionists illegally
(per UN resolutions) occupied East Jerusalem and then illegally annexed it to the
illegal apartheid state of Israel in the process causing further ethnic
cleansing, so that Jerusalem has been changing from multi-religious and
multicultural to the (mainly Ashkenazi) Zionist-Jewish city. Israel has been
doing slow torture hoping to drive the remaining Palestinians out of Jerusalem “circumspectly”
(as Ben-Gurion also once put it). I say the last straw because this extreme
fascist government of Israel that took the final decision to move the US
Embassy now appears in full control of the US administration (before there was
some thought that is only 95% control). This will break the backs of many
camels. To be specific and to start with the first line of camels Arab regimes that were
having huge difficulty anyway balancing loads left and right. Loads include normalization
with Zionism and imperialism thinking this will guard their regimes (it will
not, many US/Israeli puppets were abandoned once their utility expired). Loads
also include the heavy load of their people who hate hypocrisy and sympathize with
suffering people whether in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and perhaps especially in
Palestine (the Holy Land). Loads also
include their ever deteriorating economies thanks to their corruption,
nepotism, lack of democracy, and lack of transparency. These regimes will now have to reevaluate the strategy: stay the current course of collusion leading to their demise or answer their people's calls: join the resistance, organize, and ACT (not just issue empty words).

I predicted in previous blogs (e.g. see my November 21st
blog http://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2017/11/will-palestine-be-liquidated-with-arab.html
) that this would happen and I predicted that mayhem and violence will follow
and I think all Zionist leaders also see this and predicted it. But their fatal
mistake is thinking that they can have “manageable conflicts” that keep their
neighbors and victims busy (divide and conquer). Now Zionists in the White House
like colonial advocate Kushner are pitting the US against the whole Arab, Islamic,
and even Christian world. Their last three bets of this nature were mostly
failures (Iraq, Syria, Yemen). They have also failed so far to get the US to
attack Iran for them (as they did with Iraq). They are failing to get Saudi
Arabia to fight a war in Lebanon (thanks to Lebanese strong civil society). So
like a gambler who keeps losing; they are now going for the jack-pot of a
global religious war over Jerusalem that they think they will come out victorious
and rulers of the world (the reality is a nuclear war that will end Homo
sapience). Zionists and their puppets MUST fail like before. But we need to ACT
now to stop it. We need all collaborators to see the danger (even to
themselves). It is urgent and existential struggle.

The people of Palestine are of course the first and main line of
defense for our country. My sister Sahar wrote a blog about this from her
(Christian) perspective that I thought brought out a good analogy of why this
could be the last straw for the people.

The South African BDS movement issued a call to action that included
this: “Actions speak louder, it is the time for concrete steps to hold Israel
accountable for its unlawful annexation of Palestinian land and its oppression
of Christian, Muslim, Jewish and all other Palestinians.” How to act? I
say be proactive not reactive, plan, and above all ORGANIZE. Here are 70 ways
to act: http://qumsiyeh.org/whatyoucando/

I would add: cut off all contacts with the US administration. Any
decent Arab or Muslim leader would do that. Any who does not needs to answer to
the people

About Me

Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh teaches and does research at Bethlehem University (BU) and directs the BU's cytogenetics laboratory and the Palestine Museum of Natural History and Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability in occupied Palestine. He also taught at Birzeit and Al-Quds Universities. He is author of "Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human rights and the Israeli/Palestinian Struggle", “Popular Resistance in Palestine: A history of Hope and Empowerment”, "Mammals of the Holy Land", and "The Bats of Egypt." He formerly served on the board of the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement Between People in Beit Sahour and Al-Rowwad Cultural and Theatre Society at Aida Refugee Camp.